IT’S THE INEQUALITY THAT KILLS

I wanted to share with you a brilliant Guardian interview with Naomi Klein author of such powerful dives into how the forces that shape the modern world work (and how dystopian they are) as No Logo, Disaster Capitalism and This Changes Everything.

She speaks a lot of truth and good sense, but one thing that really jumped out and spoke to me about what we are trying to achieve with Power (and indeed all of our projects) was this bit :-

"I think the most important thing is to just find other people. Trying to think through this by yourself is a recipe for feeling like a failure and getting dispirited very, very quickly. The benefit of being part of a broader movement is knowing that some people are doing some things, and other people are doing other things, and nobody has to do everything.

I always tell students to find a movement you feel comfortable in, make sure it’s interlinked with other movements, and then work in coalition as broadly as you possibly can.

And then marry your passion with need. Whatever you want to do, find a way to connect it with the climate crisis. Maybe it’s art, maybe it’s engineering, maybe it’s planning – it’s all needed. I don’t think people need to give up what they’re passionate about to tackle climate change. I think they need to figure out how to connect what they’re passionate about with the climate crisis. Because this is the work of our lifetimes."

It's a wonderful read - that I thought would be of interest to a lot of people on this list - and you can find the full article here :-